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Instant gratification takes too long. -- Carrie Fisher
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. -- James Dean
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. -- Learned Hand
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. -- Michel de Montaigne
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. -- Julian Bond
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. -- Judith Wright
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. -- Andrew Vachss
I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself. -- Trish Stratus
Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life. -- Charles Kennedy
What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright -- Bill Bryson
Theatre is immediate gratification -- Chita Rivera
Instant gratification is not soon enough. -- Meryl Streep
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The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. -- George Minot
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time. -- Josh Radnor
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification. -- Xaviera Hollander
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. -- Ellis Peters
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. -- Thomas Perry
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years. -- Questlove
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way. -- Raymond Arroyo
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us. -- Rod Parsley
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification. -- Greg Ginn
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. -- Gregor Mendel
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination. -- Richard Lamm
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied. -- Andrew Vachss
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. -- Davy Crockett
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard. -- Jeremy Renner
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. -- Judith Krantz
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. -- Joseph Lancaster
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. -- Pope Francis
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas. -- Dan Hill
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. -- David Ricardo
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. -- Taylor Hackford
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification. -- Bruce Dickinson
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message. -- Madonna Ciccone
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products... -- Ellen Willis
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. -- Moshe Safdie
Theatre is immediate gratification. -- Chita Rivera
I need instant gratification. -- Barbra Streisand
With great effort comes great gratification. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
The gratification of desire is not happiness. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. -- Sigmund Freud
I'm an American and I want instant gratification. -- Jude Deveraux
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification. -- Charlie Munger
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. -- Mike Murdock
[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification. -- Krista Tippett
America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification. -- M. Scott Peck
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized. -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for. -- Paul Shaffer
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception. -- Ann Druyan
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines. -- Frank Zappa
Quick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life -- Constance Chuks Friday
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. -- Mike Dooley
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort -- Daniel Goleman
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. -- Joseph Campbell
Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff -- Darren Hardy
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. -- Pliny the Elder
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination. -- Dan Ariely
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification. -- Sylvester Stallone
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. -- Rachael Taylor
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification. -- Immanuel Kant
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. -- Jesse Metcalfe
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. -- Walter Benjamin
Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited. -- Ralph Marston
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans. -- Bobby Sherman
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. -- Matthieu Ricard
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. -- Cullen Hightower
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. -- Brian Tracy
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. -- Radhanath Swami
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. -- Thomas Jefferson
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. -- Thorstein Veblen
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year. -- Macaulay Culkin
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife. -- Steve Arterburn
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. -- Donald Barthelme
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. -- Martin Seligman
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Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification. -- Hanan Ashrawi
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. -- George Minot
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. -- George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing. -- Wanda Sykes
Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification. -- Squidward Tentacles
Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem. -- Janet Guthrie
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions. -- Clive Sinclair
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. -- Beatrice Webb
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification -- William Blake
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification. -- Bill Bonner
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. -- Jami Attenberg
Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake -- Colleen Hoover
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. -- Reuben Fine
I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want. -- Jeff Bridges
Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance. -- Archibald Marwizi
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be. -- Maximillian Degenerez
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness -- Adrienne Rich
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. -- Alison Bechdel
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning. -- Isabel Allende
Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later. -- Joe Hill
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness. -- Susan Sontag
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. -- Joseph Addison
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. -- Aristotle
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. -- Ambrose Bierce
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. -- Walter Russell
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something. -- Julian Ovenden
It's a pleasure to create a smile on people's face, and a gratification to see it on the people you love. -- Hassan Choughari
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share -- Quentin Crisp
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. -- Clayton Christensen
Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life. -- Greg Gutfeld
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? -- Jean-Baptiste Say
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new. -- Ariel Pink
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you. -- Jeff Bezos
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others. -- Thomas Jefferson

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